As documented here, the relationship between Billy Corgan and Courtney Love has had so many different chapters over the years that you’d probably need more than one volume to get the whole saga down. But the pair seem to have struck a cordial note in middle-age, as Corgan revealed in a recent interview with Alison Hagendorf on her show. “I was just texting with her two days ago,” the Smashing Pumpkins frontman said as talk turned to Love. “We’ll talk once every six or eight weeks. She’s a furious texter, let’s put it that way. It’s a text storm! And it can be about anything, we were talking about Rothschilds one second and what’s in the news next and it’s all good. 1990 is when we first met, they were touring on their first album or single, which was on Caroline at the time, also our label, and the rest is history.”
Corgan, who had a hand in co-writing some of Love’s biggest hits by way of his work on their 1998 album Celebrity Skin, said he was aware that Love was working on new material and that he was keen to collaborate again but respected the fact Love had found a new crew of artistic sparring partners. “I’ve offered to help a couple of times but I think she’s fallen in with some people in England that she likes,” he said. “I’ve heard some stuff, I don’t have any particular opinion, good or bad because I think what’s she’s after is something I don’t totally understand but Courtney doesn’t lack a perspective, that’s never been the issue. But because of her raw musical talent, she’s still reliant on other people to translate. I like to think that in that thing, I’ve been the best partner in translating her version into something that an average fan on the street would understand."
